LOL, JK: Fox News Is Wrong About Climate Change Three-Quarters Of The Time

Careful what you believe about climate change — well, if your source is Fox News. A new analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists (a nonprofit that's exactly what it sounds like) has uncovered the accuracy of climate change coverage by three major networks — CNN, Fox News and MSNBC — in 2013. Out of the three, MSNBC was the most accurate, getting the science right about 92 percent of the time, while CNN followed with 70 percent. But Fox News came in a distant third with a staggering 28 percent accuracy.

Only two-thirds of the U.S. population believe climate change is a real thing, according to a 2013 Yale Project on Climate Change Communication study, so public perception based on media coverage is pretty important.

While Fox News does have the lowest accuracy among the three networks, the 28 percent rating is actually a good thing for Fox — since its former rate was just 7 percent when the UCS released a report in 2012.

In a press release that accompanies the published report, the scientists state: "Media outlets can do more to foster a fact-based conversation about climate change and policies designed to address it, rather than contributing to a broken and inaccurate debate about the established facts of climate science."